Isaiah 3:12

Bible in Basic English 1965

As for my people, their ruler is acting like a child, and those who have authority over them are women. O my people, your guides are the cause of your wandering, turning your footsteps out of the right way.

Cross References

2 Kings 11:1

Now when Athaliah, the mother of Ahaziah, saw that her son was dead, she had all the rest of the seed of the kingdom put to death.

Job 30:13

They have made waste my roads, with a view to my destruction; his bowmen come round about me;

Proverbs 28:16

The prince who has no sense is a cruel ruler; but he who has no desire to get profit for himself will have long life.

Ecclesiastes 10:16

Unhappy is the land whose king is a boy, and whose rulers are feasting in the morning.

Isaiah 19:14

The Lord has sent among them a spirit of error: and by them Egypt is turned out of the right way in all her doings, as a man overcome by wine is uncertain in his steps.

Isaiah 3:4

And I will make children their chiefs, and foolish ones will have rule over them.

Isaiah 51:22

This is the word of the Lord your master, even your God who takes up the cause of his people: See, I have taken out of your hand the cup which overcomes, even the cup of my wrath; it will not again be given to you:

Jeremiah 5:31

The prophets give false words and the priests give decisions by their direction; and my people are glad to have it so: and what will you do in the end?

Micah 3:5

This is what the Lord has said about the prophets by whom my people have been turned from the right way; who, biting with their teeth, say, Peace; and if anyone puts nothing in their mouths they make ready for war against him.

Nahum 3:13

See, the people who are in you are women; the doorways of your land are wide open to your attackers: the locks of your doors have been burned away in the fire.

Matthew 15:14

Let them be: they are blind guides. And if a blind man is guiding a blind man, the two will go falling into a hole together.

Matthew 23:13

But a curse is on you, scribes and Pharisees, false ones! because you are shutting the kingdom of heaven against men: for you do not go in yourselves, and those who are going in, you keep back.